The McNabb Center
Legal name: Helen Ross Mcnabb Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 620548914
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 1-800-255-9711
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,133,699
- Expenses
- $110,289,248
- Assets
- $103,436,884
- Liabilities
- $29,236,455
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MONA LEIGH BLANTON-KITTS (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MONA LEIGH BLANTON-KITTS (PRESIDENT/CEO): $526,274 total reported compensation
- DOVILE PAULAUSKAS (MEDICAL DIRECTOR): $476,924 total reported compensation
- HOUSTON SMELCER (SENIOR VP, DEV. & GOV'T RELATIONS): $446,639 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Improving the lives of the people we serve; helping children, adults and families with substance use, mental illness and social challenges.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mental health - a full array of programs for mental health care, addiction and co-occurring treatment, recovery and social services to meet the needs of adults in our community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 61% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $115.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 9 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $87.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $526K · 29 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.6M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.